2nd Regional Organizing Group Meeting of the OCOP Initiative for Asia and the Pacific and, the International Capacity Building Workshop on Geographical Indications Environment and Sustainability (GIES) for Special Agricultural Products (SAPs) Development

Hybrid Event, 11/09/2024 - 21/09/2024

Fifteen countries from across Asia will come together at the Regional Organizing Group Meeting (ROG) of the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) Initiative for Asia and the Pacific convened by FAO on 13 September in Beijing, China. The main objectives of the meeting will be to review th...

Joint Capacity Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Nutrition in OCOP for Healthy Diets

Virtual Event, 28/08/2024 - 30/08/2024

The Capacity Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Nutrition in OCOP for Healthy Diets is a virtual event co-organized by the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the Institute of Nutrition of the Mahidol University, Thailand (INMU). This workshop provides participants with innovative and technical information to promote the nutrition dimension of the

33rd Session of Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission

Hybrid Event, 23/09/2024 - 27/09/2024

The 33^rd Session of the Asia and the Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC) will convene from the 23-27 September in Suzhou, China. The Session will introduce, exchange information and work on important issues of phytosanitary matters and other aspects of plant protection among the Member Nations in the Asia and the Pacific region.

The meeting will take st...

International Soil and Water Forum 2024

Bangkok (Thailand), Hybrid Event, 09/12/2024 - 11/12/2024

With the SDG deadlines looming ever closer, and with decades of mismanagement of the world’s soil and water behind us, the time is now for a dramatic shift in approaches t...

World Food Day regional event

07/10/2024

The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will host an event in Bangkok, Thailand to mark World Food Day 2024 under the global theme of “Right to foods for a better life and a better future, leaving no one behind.”

Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, who is FA...

Sub-regional training workshop on mixed stock fisheries in the Gulf of Thailand

26/08/2024 - 30/08/2024

FAO together with the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) will conduct a training workshop to develop indicator species for multi-species/multi-fishery management approaches for the Gulf of Thailand, particularly in Area 71. This is a follow-up on two workshops held last year to develop an updated list of stocks to evaluate overfishing in Regions 57 and 71.

The meeti...

Second Joint Workshop on Fostering Parliamentary Action and Collaboration for Effective Implementation of the ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry

24/07/2024 - 25/07/2024

Recognizing agriculture’s critical role in poverty alleviation and food security, ASEAN Member States have highlighted the pressing need for more responsible investments in this sector in the ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry (ASEAN-RAI), which were adopted in 2018 based on the Committee on World Food Security’s Principles for Responsible ...

3rd Meeting of the AMU/AMR Technical Advisory Group for Southeast Asia

Hybrid Event, 01/04/2020 - 03/04/2020

Tackling Solar Powered Irrigation Associated Social and Ground Water Risks in South Asia

10/09/2019 - 11/09/2019

FAO in partnership with International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has developed, country assessments, policy briefs and SPIS suitability maps for Bangladesh and Pakistan to explore the sensitive differences in scale of oper

Regional Programme Meeting on Towards a Non-Toxic South East Asia

27/11/2018 - 29/11/2018

  Objectives The overall objectives of this meeting will be to: Share highlights of achievements and impact resulting from programme interventions, from 2007 to 2018; To highlight needs, opportunities and challenges for continued work on che

Stakeholder Validation Workshop for the Development of a National Plan of Action to Combat IUU Fishing (NPOA-IUU)

23/01/2019 - 25/01/2019

The Stakeholder Validation Workshop in the Maldives under the TCP/MDV/3603/C3, Development of a National Plan of Action to Combat IUU Fishing (NPOA-IUU), was successfully held on 23 January 2019. The objective of the workshop was to seek comment and agree

Regional Training Workshop "Capacity building on risk categorization for ranking risk of ASEAN food hazards for developing the risk-based monitoring protocol for food safety"

23/04/2019 - 25/04/2019

  Food safety is a global issue. Unsafe foods cause major public health problems, including in ASEAN countries. Food safety hazards, such as microbiological pathogens, or other food contaminants, such as chemicals, are reported as causing major s

Regional Workshop on GoTFish: Promoting the Blue Economy of the Gulf of Thailand through the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

14/03/2019 - 15/03/2019

  The overall goal of this work is to support fisheries departments of the Gulf of Thailand countries (Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam) to participate in the prioritization processes for the Global Environmental Facility 7th Replenishme

Thirty-fifth Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (Virtual Mode)

Hybrid Event, 01/09/2020 - 04/09/2020

The Thirty-fifth Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC-35), 1 – 4 September, will be convened virtually, on an exceptional basis, in light of the global Covid-19 pandemic and associated public health concerns. The move to a

Regional Solar Forum for Asia

19/11/2018 - 20/11/2018

Regional Strategy Review and Planning for Antimicrobial Resistance Communication and Advocacy

07/08/2018 - 08/08/2018

  Objectives and outcomes To review and refine current AMR communication campaign strategies and activities; To plan, identify regional and country activities for WAAW and finalize the AAW communication toolkit; and, To define and agree on c

Technical consultation on pest disease data collection protocol and database for climate risk analysis and early warning

Hybrid Event, 05/11/2020 - 13/11/2020

Workshop on Regional Livestock Movements and Value Chains and Training on Evaluation of Surveillance in Live Bird Markets

01/04/2019 - 03/04/2019

  The experience of controlling transboundary animal diseases (TADs) such as avian influenza has shown the critical role of domestic and international livestock trade in both, the spread as well the containment of disease outbreaks. Value chain a

Private Sector Consultation Potential Platform for Business Actions on Animal Health

Hybrid Event, 23/05/2022

  FAO has recently developed and launched a new Strategy for Private Sector Engagement (2021-2025), which lays out the Organization’s continued and enhanced commitment to joining forces for development progress. This Strategy reflects a new forward-looki

The Meeting of the Project Identification Form (PIF) on "Enhancing Environmental Security and Transboundary Cooperation in the Golok/Kolok River Basin

Hybrid Event, 05/08/2020

The purpose of this inception workshop is to introduce to relevant representatives from Cambodia and Viet Nam -        the objectives and structure of the project as defined in the GEF-approved Project Identification Form (PIF), -        the go